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"LIFE BEING WHAT IT IS," Baudelaire wrote, "one dreams of revenge." No doubt, but not half so intensely, one might guess, as children bullied at school do. Bullying is the kind of experience that often determines the entire course of a lifetime. No revenge beats looking down on your tormentor a couple of decades later from the heights of fame and fortune.
To understand bullying, one must begin by recognizing that it arises directly out of the human delight in the exercise of power. It is, in Christian terms, a central part of original sin, of human imperfection. Bullying is pleasure in intimidating people, the intimidator feeling happily superior to the intimidated.
It rakes a great variety of forms, from ostracism to demands with menaces for money or other benefits. The very miscellaneous thing called "sexual harassment" is a form of bullying and so, in a sense, is blackmail.
I suspect, though I may be...
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